Nona is unlikely to be able to repeat it, but it's nice to remember. It's a very good museum. I was on a spree from St. Michel Cathedral to the Park and saw that the entrance to the museum was free and not applicable. Well, what is it worth coming here for? Well, of course, first of all because of Peter Brueghel (senior SS). There are 7 of his paintings here. You can get involved in disputes about the authorship of some people who copied it too much, but this will only add interest, right? Home "Winter landscape". "Oooh, how many wonderful discoveries we have..." We are not the only ones who are interested in these "icy living pictures". Tarkovsky has them in many places and not once. He loved old Brueghel, as well as Solonitsyn :-)). In his films, both in Solaris and in the Mirror, you can see the paintings themselves and allusions to them. For beauty? An inexperienced viewer will ask, a professional critic will answer. I will say as Buba - "I think so", that for Andrei Arsenievich it was important that Brueghel's heroes draw joy (skates, sleds, winter holidays, the comfort of a home fire) from PUNISHING nature, just as the artist finds beauty in a scene that his contemporaries would hardly find inspiring (the difficult years of the Little Glacial period). The paintings are both impressionistic and realistic. In Solaris, in the zero gravity scene, we see Hunters in the snow (the original in Vienna) and a Landscape with Icarus, but you can just watch it in Brussels. It's a very mysterious picture! It will take you a while to find the unfortunate Icarus. No one noticed the young man's collapse: neither the shepherd, looking up, nor the plowman, who looked down, nor the fisherman, completely busy with his work. Although, isn't that the case in life? The "Bethlehem Census" is no less mysterious. Joseph the Carpenter is not immediately found in the painting. Everyone is busy with their own affairs, yes! "Christ is among us, but we do not see Him while He is outside, not inside us"... Well, Tarkovsky's ideas flow from film to film, in the Mirror we again see the "concept of childhood" presented through the Bruegel atmosphere. The scene with the boy on a snowy hill resembles Brueghel's Winter landscapes in both pose and landscape. So Brueghel's aesthetics and ideas were very close to Tarkovsky, who admired his work. The beauty of the artist's paintings is not deliberate, but what he called "harmonious beauty, hidden, beauty as such." And he did not quote other people's works of art, he entered into dialogues with them... Moreover, these are not separate inserts, it runs through all his work. So already in "Ivan's Childhood" the engravings "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" and "Knight, Death and the Devil" by Albrecht Durer appear - allegorical portraits of war and the young knight Ivan. Despite all the fatality of what is happening, the thesis of sacrifice in the name of saving others is incredibly strong and important in the film. Starting with the Apocalypse and sacrifice, Tarkovsky will develop them more and more deeply in subsequent films. Okay, what else is in the Royal Museum? So Rubens! You have it here too. Do you want more? You can go to Antwerp to the Rubens house, there is more. What else? Wonderful paintings of both Cranachs, the elder and the younger, including Adam and Eve, Apollo and Diana, Caritas. Jacob Jordaens is the "most Flemish" artist. I was not impressed. And no less important is what you won't see in the museum! Jan van Eyck!!! How so?! And that's it! We have to go to Ghent to see his Altar. But this is another "sacred" Tarkovsky artist. Jan van Eyck's painting was able to combine love for both man and God. What his INCREDIBLE portraits witness! A person has always been important to Tarkovsky. Therefore, he chooses the work of this Renaissance master, a period when Europe was changing its orientation towards anthropocentrism. In "Stalker", during the heroes' rest in the Zone, after reading the lines from the Revelation of John the Theologian in a voiceover, a fragment of the Ghent altar by Jan Van Eyck with the image of John the Baptist appears. That's how it is. And if it is difficult to get to Brussels, then Tarkovsky's films can be reviewed :-)))

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